Mathematician:Henry Briggs

Mathematician

English mathematician most famous for converting Napierian logarithms into Briggsian (common) logarithms.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: Feb 1561, Warleywood, Yorkshire, England
• Died: 26 Jan 1630, Oxford, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Briggsian (Common) Logarithms

Definitions of concepts named for Henry Briggs can be found here.

Publications

• 1602: A Table to find the Height of the Pole, the Magnetic Declination being given
• 1610: Tables for the Improvement of Navigation
• 1616, 1618: A Description of an Instrumental Table to find the part proportional, devised by Mr Edward Wright
• 1617: Logarithmorum Chilias Prima
• 1619: Lucubrationes et Annotationes in opera posthuma J. Neperi
• 1620: An edition of the first six book of Euclid's The Elements
• 1622: A Treatise of the Northwest Passage to the South Sea, Through the Continent of Virginia and by Fretum Hudson (as by H.B.)
• 1624: Arithmetica Logarithmica
• 1633: Trigonometria Britannica (posthumous, added to by others)

Unpublished

• Commentaries on the Geometry of Peter Ramus
• Remarks on the Treatise of Longomontanus respecting the Quadrature of the Circle

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Henry Briggs": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1938: A. Geary, H.V. Lowry and H.A. Hayden: Mathematics for Technical Students, Part One ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetic: Chapter $\text I$: Decimals
• 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
• 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $5$: Eternal Triangles: Base ten logarithms
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
• 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)